Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 696
,—a modern Her-cules. The thought thrilled him. He broodedover it by day; it haunted his dreams by night.He went about with a lofty look on his face. Healready regarded the other boys with the pity andcompassion with which a real hero would perhapsregard common men. But how to become a Hercules… … THE BOYS SOMETIMES LAUGHED AT HIM. schooner, if the ocean had been there, he gave upthese plans. Finding these roads to distinction shut to him,Jack went about for a while quite dejected, untilone day he came across an old book of mythologyin the library, and there read of the exploits ofHercules,…
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